But with technical skills in relatively short supply, few industries face greater competition for talent than engineering and architecture.
David Kennedy, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian who has taught at Stanford for more than forty years, credits the university with helping needy students and spawning talent in engineering and business, but he worries that many students uncritically incorporate the excesses of Silicon Valley, and that there are not nearly enough students devoted to the liberal arts and to the idea of pure learning.
But in New York, engineering talent is scarce, and salaries are inflated by the big financial firms.
The purpose of the buyout is to bring the engineering talent behind Sharegrove to the Facebook team.
They decided they did not have the engineering talent to both design products for others and for their own products.
The Enstone-based team have announced the seventh season of their Altran Engineering Academy competition to promote young engineering talent in F1.
With a critical mass of well-educated university students at three universities, Quebec is a great environment to attract world-class engineering talent.
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As with most startups receiving an influx of cash, they plan to spend a good chunk of that money on engineering talent.
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Then they realized they had to start acquiring engineering talent and technology.
Cisco has also improved its sales execution and refocused its engineering talent.
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Jeff Scheinrock is currently the CFO at Originate, a company that invests elite engineering talent and startup expertise into high potential opportunities.
Why are we continuing to send our U.S.-educated international students home when they can help to fill the technology and engineering talent shortages?
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Boeing executives also dismissed the possibility of slowdowns in other business lines due to engineering talent and resources getting diverted to fixing the Dreamliner.
The escalating demand for engineering talent is highlighted throughout the Report.
For top technology companies, hiring engineering talent is a major challenga.
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It concluded that the available pool of engineering talent in China was no larger than that in Britain, which now has a mostly service economy.
In the Valley, there is an intense battle for engineering talent.
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Tanti is positioning Suzlon to get a fair chunk of that growth by being a low-cost producer and is collecting engineering talent so Suzlon can continually improve technology.
It has also added engineering talent by acquiring other start-ups.
Koch tends to invest in industries that convert raw materials into higher-value products, with complicated operations that require a lot of engineering talent and constant innovation in production methods.
Demos went a bit long, audio was a bit haphazard (especially with all the engineering talent in the room) but there the wine, food and victuals for the brain flowed.
There's a problem with this goal: It will force Dell to change from being an assembler of boxes working on thin margins to an assembler of engineering talent working on fat margins.
Given all of that we could indeed say, as Felix does, that the current low Apple stock price is a useful tool for them in the battle to hire that scarce Silicon Valley engineering talent.
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However, as India and China continue to emerge, the abundance of engineering talent will mean that great companies will be defined not by their ability to develop a faster widget, but by their ability to innovate.
For any entrepreneur and innovator, space travel is a taxing road to travel, fraught with pitfalls from a sudden lack of political willpower, to finding the right engineering talent, to having no market or clients to speak of.
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This attitude is reflected in her personal philanthropy, which focuses heavily on nurturing scientific and engineering talent at her alma mater and helping military families (her son-in-law is a Marine who has deployed three times in recent years).
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Like Y-Combinator, TechStars and other U.S. incubators, Innovation Works attracts top entrepreneurs and engineering talent with seed funding, office space and high-profile mentoring from the likes of Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang and Guitar Hero founders Kai and Charles Huang.
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"We have a real revenue model, a traditionally based one with real margins, not just page views, " says Clayton, who has recruited some big brains from Yahoo, including the creator of Yahoo IM, as well as engineering talent from Facebook and Skype.
He scoured the world for the perfect battery technology (a combination of lightweight and long charging), added a solar panel for those without plug-in electricity recharge options, leveraged local university engineering talent to make it all work, and delivered a truly silent generator that can run a full size refrigerator for over a day if the power goes down.
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